Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

[Mikhail Gusarov]

Twas brillig at 13:37:51 17.09.2011 UTC+02 when ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org did gyre and gimble:

 LB>  mdev could also be patched to be run as a "mdevd" daemon listening
 LB> to the netlink. That would solve the speed problem related to
 LB> /etc/mdev.conf parsing, and would still be orders of magnitude
 LB> below the complexity of udevd.

There is 'hotplug2' project by OpenWRT devs which is quite similar in
functionality to hypotetical mdevd.

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